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If the counterfeit is good enough that nobody catches it, all the counterfeit currency would do is increase inflation a little bit, probably less than the guys with the peso printer at the central bank are doing now. Dollars don't have any inherent value...

Document the hell out of it. My last airbnb was a new apartment with a few drainage problems, there was a constant puddle of sewer water in the bathroom that would grow and flood the entire apartment every time i took a shower. I told the owner, she refused to fix it, and then tried to come...

The moral of the story is dont use uber. They love letting me get somewhere remote then blocking my account, leaving me stranded. There's taxis en Buenos Aires.

A few years ago, did you ever imagine the whole world getting locked up over the flu? Just needs the right crisis.

Say, for example, it's 2024 and you run a restaurant. Using paper pesos has long since become impractical because of inflation and small denominations. Thankfully, you get a lot of tourists who pay in foreign cash. You have to order supplies in digital pesos. Guess what? Since all those...

The real beauty of the CBDC from a politician's perspective is that they can control who is allowed to do certain kinds of transactions. If you don't have the "politician" flag on your account, or have a history of having paid your donation to somebody's cousin's ONG in the past year, the...

Mep only exists because the government saw how much USD they were losing to the private market and tried to recapture a share. If they were able to stamp out the dolar blue with a peso central bank digital currency, do you think the central bank would continue giving a favorable MEP rate to...

They should launch a super-printer to go along with it...

No need to close them. With a digital peso, every transaction is visible on the blockchain. You click a button and can sort by certain criteria (what a normal whatever business earns per peso of revenue, number of clients, average sale per ticket, etc) and see which ones are outside the norm...

I wonder how many of the expats with dual citizenship voting for Massa realize that the whole purpose of his digital peso is so the central bank can block things they don't like, like dollar transactions through unapproved channels. Y'all are going to be paying dolar oficial for everything, and...

Thank God they threw out the electronic voting. In Brasil, it was completely obvious from the beginning how they were going to use the machines to steal the election for Lula, and that's exactly what happened. My girlfriend at the time was working in the elections and told me as much after her...

All those pandemic decrees were a dangerous precedent for the global left to set. Live by the sword, die by the sword. On the theme of wagers, I made an offer on a property today contingent on Millei winning in the first round. Not really a wager, more of a call option, but still. If this works...

I tried to buy some fancy boots today with cash reais and the guy told me PESOS ONLY, couldn't get him to change his mind for nothing. He helpfully offered that I could pay with a foreign card (at MEP) for a 10% fee. I asked him if the price would be the same in pesos on Monday and he said...

The dog is devaluing more slowly than the peso. He's merely placing his savings in furry assets.

Don't forget eating bugs. You gotta eat bugs or the earth is doomed. Thankfully most of the true believers in the manmade climate change scam are busy vaccinating and boosting themselves out of the gene pool and into the big safe space in the sky, so the problem should resolve itself eventually.

There's a difference between climate change (the sun goes through periods of increased output and decreased input) and the cult of anthropogenic climate change which tends to appeal to the same insane whackos who wanted to force me to poison myself. Most corporate and government funded "science"...

Do you always get this upset when people don't share your religious beliefs?

I was actually in damn near the exact same situation. After getting my St.Kitts passport, I was a bit reluctant to renounce US citizenship in case I actually had to go live in St. Kitts (the place ain't very big.) I ended up getting citizenship somewhere else entirely a few months ago thanks to...

Any idea if this new rental law only applies to 3 year rentals (which have already ceased to exist so it accomplishes nothing) or to airbnb/alquilares temporarias as well?

oh god, now there won't be any rentals listed you'll have to go find a real estate agent in a dark alley